HONG KONG 2004
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Table 40
(Chapter 17: Communications, the Media and Information Technology)
 
Communications and Internet Services
 
  1999   2003   2004  
Postal services            
  Letter mail (million articles) 1 269   1 257 * 1 268  
  Parcels (thousands) 1 027   946   938  
                     
Telecommunications and Internet Services            
  Telephone lines (thousands)            
    Business 1 649   1 701   1 662  
    Residential 2 190   2 119   2 118  
    Total 3 839   3 820   3 780  
  Number of fax lines (thousand working lines) 384   491   456  
  Telephone lines per 1 000 population 578   558   548 #
  Public mobile radiotelephone subscribers 550   644   663 #
    per 1 000 population(1) [601]   [1 051]   [1 183] #
  Public radio paging subscribers per 1 000 population 52   26   23 #
  Outward external telephone traffic (million minutes) 2 550   4 233   4 937  
  Number of licensed Internet Service Providers (ISPs) 165   201   188  
  Number of customers of the licensed            
    Internet Service Providers (ISPs)            
    Registered customer accounts with dial-up(2) 1 734   1 084   1 004  
       access (thousands)            
    Registered broadband Internet access customer —   1 231   1 484  
      accounts (thousands)            
  Internet traffic volume            
    Customer access via public switched telephone 10 923   3 564   1 897  
      networks(3) (million minutes)            
   

Customer access via broadband networks (terabits)

—   933 728   2 949 652  
 
 
Notes:
(1) Excluding pre-paid SIM cards. Figures including pre-paid SIM cards are presented in square brackets.
(2) Excluding Internet pre-paid calling cards.
(3) Excluding customer access via leased circuits
Source: Hong Kong Post.
(Enquiry Telephone No.: 2921 2231)
Office of the Telecommunications Authority.
(Enquiry Telephone No.: 2961 6652)
 
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